Don't be afraid of vanity projects

Hugh Laurie's blues album has provoked negative responses. But like the best, his is about a fan getting up and having a goI have no great expertise in the blues. In fact my last brush with them was on the gently didactic CBeebies show ZingZillas, on which they were played and sung by a monkey puppet. This, I imagine, puts me squarely in the intended audience for Hugh Laurie's hit blues album, Let Them Talk. Laurie has been doing the chat show rounds for this record, his combination of obvious s...

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